The Slice Is It Spring Tomorrow?
After witnessing dramatic and sudden changes in our weather recently, Cheney’s 4-year-old Elizabeth Olson asked “Mommy, what season will it be tomorrow?”
Home for the holidays: “Twenty-five years ago, I took my boyfriend (now my husband) to Kalispell, Mont., to meet my family,” wrote Davenport’s Sharon Egertson.
“I called ahead to tell my parents that, although he had a beard and mustache, he was NOT a hippie. Mom thought that was funny and told some friends, who told their friends, who…
“When we got to Kalispell, a total stranger came up to us in a grocery store and said ‘You’re Sharon Johnson, aren’t you? And this must be your boyfriend with the beard!”’ Sharon’s husband, Mark, is a Lutheran minister now. He still has a beard.
OK, one last Halloween item: “My favorite trick-or-treater this year was a young boy about 9 years old, dressed formally in a nice suit and tie, hair slicked back with devil horns stuck to his forehead,” faxed Melody Thompson. “He looked at me very seriously and stated ‘I’m an attorney.”’
Speaking of attorneys: Endicott’s Janette Wold has a 7-year-old relative over in Manson, Wash., who, upon hearing about an upcoming conference involving his teacher and his mom, said “Should I bring my lawyer?”
Turkeys: You can relax now. There WILL be a Thanksgiving Day “Mystery Science Theater 3000” marathon on Comedy Central.
Overheard in a store (an excited preschool girl talking to two equally young companions): “Let’s all hop!”
She then proceeded to do just that, singing out “Hop, hop, hop.”
But nobody else joined in. So she turned to the other kids and asked them the only question that made any sense. “Are you ready to hop?”
Guiding vandals isn’t in our mission statement: So we can’t tell you about the rural road outside Spokane that has our favorite assortment of creative mailboxes.
Today’s Slice question: What’s a good name for someone who tries to go through an entire winter without ever donning boots or overshoes?
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